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Police hunting a jogger who pushed a woman in front of a bus could have avoided embarrassingly arresting the wrong man by simply Googling his name.

Millionaire banker Eric Bellquist has received death threats and been forced to hire a bodyguard after he was wrongfully detained in connection with the shocking attack by the runner on Putney Bridge last week.

However, records from the Mapmyrun app, which come up by running Bellquist's name through the search engine show that - although he has not recorded any exercise since 2013 - he has one preferred route he always takes from Sloane Square to Battersea Park, some three-and-a-half miles from Putney.

It is one of several pieces of evidence to distance Bellquist, 41, from the crime and raises further questions as to how he was ever arrested, the Daily Mail reports.

His lawyers managed to produce irrefutable proof that he was in the United States at the time of the incident.

Footage of the incident, showing a man apparently knocking a woman into the path of an oncoming double-decker, sparked outrage when it was released by Scotland Yard.

The Metropolitan Police has since confirmed officers did not check whether or not Bellquist was in the country at the time of the incident before his arrest, nor that they checked his running routes.

Bellquist, who did not appear to be at home today, was dramatically hauled away in handcuffs from his home in west London last week after police released CCTV footage of the incident and appealed for members of the public to identify the jogger.

A jogger was running across Putney Bridge in west London when he barged into the woman. Photo / Met Police